Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Overview Shearer's Foods, founded in 1974 and headquartered in Massillon, OH, is a leading manufacturer of salty snacks, cookies, and crackers. Specializing in private label and co-manufacturing, Shearer's is the largest supplier of private brand salty snacks and second-largest supplier of private brand cookies and crackers. With a strong focus on innovation, service, quality, and sustainability, Shearer's has been awarded the food industry's highest award for environmental sustainability, as well as multiple Supplier of the Year awards. Operating 16 locations across North America and employing more than 5000 team members, Shearer's is driven by its core values of People, Grow, Impact and Win. The company mission is to deliver exceptional products and services that make snacking a time to celebrate for our customers, colleagues, and community. At Shearer's Foods, we believe in a skills-first approach to recruitment and employment. This means focusing on what you can do and how you can grow, rather than traditional metrics alone. We are committed to adhering to anti-exclusion practices, removing barriers to access, and enhancing opportunities for all individuals based on merit and potential. Your skills, experience, and perspective are valuable—and we want to empower you to make your mark here with us.

Responsibilities

The Maintenance Engineer position is responsible for working closely with the M&R Reliability Engineers in implementing tactical and strategic maintenance and reliability strategies for plant equipment, maintenance practices, and equipment commissioning. When equipment fails, the Maintenance Engineer will analyze the failures, isolate the failure modes, and ensure that time-sensitive issues are addressed promptly. Along with maintaining and resolving faults as they occur, the Maintenance Engineer will coordinate and implement proactive maintenance practices that are forward looking, continuously improving, creating, and maintaining processes that efficiently produce high quality snack food products. Develops, implements, and optimizes maintenance and reliability processes. Responsible for technical accuracy of preventative maintenance plans. Resource for the Planner to establish specific equipment tolerances and specifications. Responsible for verifying that the BOM has been updated after equipment modifications. Resource for the M&R Reliability Engineer with assistance in collection and analysis of machinery failure data. Optimizes the Mean-Time-To-Repair (MTTR). Develops equipment modification plans based on failure data, crafts feedback, and OEM design modifications. Makes specific equipment recommendations to improve machinery performance, maintainability, and reliability. Creates plans to standardize parts across like machines considering specific component performance and maintainability. Works with MRO Storeroom to optimize spares. Responsible to maintain current and correct OEM specifications, manuals and procedures for plant assets in support of planning functions and in support of daily maintenance functions. Resource for the M&R Reliability Engineer with specific machine performance information and detailed component and parts data. Develops new and innovative methods for timely repair of assets. Leads the Root Cause Failure Analysis effort for equipment failures that meet specified guidelines. Assists the M&R Engineer in Asset Criticality Analysis Assists the M&R Engineer in performing FMECA's

Qualifications

4-year degree, preferably in a related, business or technical field such as mechanical or electrical engineering or 5 years of related experience in an engineering discipline. Preferred 2+ years of experience in the food processing industry Preferred experience of working as a maintenance planner and maintenance supervisor in an industrial environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.